All articles by Mona Tabbara – Page 73
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NewsScreen Scotland purchases the rights to Edinburgh International Film Festival
Kristy Matheson, creative director of the 2022 edition, is leading an appraisal of the viability of a 2023 festival.
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News‘A Spy Among Friends’, starring Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin, sells briskly for Sony Pictures Television
Guy Pearce also stars in the Cold War thriller based on double agent Kim Philby.
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NewsUniversal International Studios signs first-look TV deal with UK production duo Home Team
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee founded Home Team in 2020.
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NewsUK’s Warp Films boosts TV team with head of development
The London and Sheffield-based production outfit has snapped up a BBC exec.
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NewsUK’s MetFilm Distribution expands with Dartmouth Films hire (exclusive)
It is the first hire for the recently launched distribution outfit.
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News‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ off to sparkling start atop UK-Ireland box office
‘She Said’, ’Strange World’ and ’Bones And All’ also debuted this weekend.
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NewsUK international Oscar entry ‘Winners’ scoops UK-Ireland deal (exclusive)
A release is set for early 2023.
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NewsUK’s Network Distributing founder Tim Beddows dies aged 59
Beddows founded the company in 1997.
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NewsScreen Scotland appoints new head of Screen Commission
The incoming head takes over from Brodie Pringle.
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical’ leads a bustling weekend
’She Said’, ‘Strange World’, ‘Bones and All’ and ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ all debut.
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News16 Days 16 Films initiative unveils 2022 line-up of short films discussing violence against women
Launched by the UK’s Modern Films, in partnership with UK Says No More.
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NewsAkhtem Seitablaev’s ‘Hell Is Empty All The Demons Are Here’ set for Ukraine shoot (exclusive)
Production is to commence in Ukraine in February 2023.
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NewsWomen In Film and Television International unveils new president
She takes over from Swedish producer Helene Granqvist.
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NewsCinesite snaps up majority stake in Mumbai animation studio Assemblage
It marks Cinesite’s first Asian acquisition.
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NewsIranian stars Hengameh Ghaziani, Katayoun Riahi arrested for public removal of headscarves
Protests have been ongoing since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in September.
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NewsUK film and TV tax reliefs could be merged from 2024 under proposed reforms
Pact head John McVay said the proposals were “broadly supportive”.
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NewsCampaign underway to raise £2m to save Edinburgh Filmhouse
The campaign is spearheaded by former Filmhouse employees Rod White, David Boyd, James Rice and Ginnie Atkinson.
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NewsBFI partners with University of Westminster, Regent Street Cinema to create film business degree
The ‘business of film’ course commences in January 2023.
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NewsUK’s Embankment Films makes key acquisitions, production and distribution hire (exclusive)
An acquisitions, production and distribution manager has joined the fold.
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NewsBritish Urban Film Festival unveils 2022 nominations
The late Denise Dowse’s ’Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story’ has received the most nominations.